movingparts
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movingparts

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movingparts

About this book

the body / knows what / it truly / wants yet / the mind / wavers all

In Edward Carson's provocative new work, the poetic moving parts of movingparts confront and breathe new life into what's true and what's not in Aesop's fable "The Fox and the Crow," as well as the shifting, often fragmentary ground between what's said and what's not about identity and intimacy in Sappho's lyrics.

Reflecting the moment-to-moment ways our minds think, these poems take us from a creative process of disconnection and reassembly to a sonic pacing of words arising out of their stillness on the page. A flair for syntactical compression is found throughout, balanced by a capricious yet transforming diction, what John Ashbery described as seeking to stretch "the bond between language and communication." Calling witness to the narratives of history while pivoting their reach forward to the present, the rhythms, allusions, and resulting outcomes of Carson's use of language expand both narrative and discovery.

movingparts is brought full circle when an unexpected historical connection between Sappho and Aesop is revealed, hinting that what is true or false in the past or present of our lives can arrive at an intimacy with and illumination of more than we imagine.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. CONTENTS
  4. CAVEAT
  5. COUNTERPARTS (fox & friend)
  6. THE FOX AND THE CROW
  7. 1 (IN WHICH BOTH OLD AND NEW APPEAR TO BE UNRULY)
  8. 2 (IN WHICH FAST-MOVING MINDS ALL -AFLUTTER REASON TOGETHER)
  9. 3 (IN WHICH THE TONGUE UNFURLS IN A -HURRIED SUCCESSION)
  10. 4 (IN WHICH STORIES ARE STARTLED INTO LIFE LIKE DETONATIONS)
  11. 5 (IN WHICH OPPOSITES ATTRACT AND -COUNTERPARTS QUARREL)
  12. 6 (IN WHICH THE ARC OF THE TALE EVOLVES THEN MOVES ON)
  13. 7 (IN WHICH ALL ASYMMETRICAL PARTS ARE PARTLY UNKNOWN)
  14. 8 (IN WHICH THE PURSUIT BECOMES A -CONCEIT OF POSSIBILITY)
  15. 9 (IN WHICH THINKING AND THOUGHTS ARE NOT EVER TOGETHER)
  16. 10 (IN WHICH THE PERSISTENCE OF -DETECTION IS UNSUCCESSFUL)
  17. 11 (IN WHICH THE HUBBUB OF VERB IS A CLAMOUR AND BUZZ)
  18. 12 (IN WHICH ONE THOUGHT MIDDLEMOST SLIPS INTO ANOTHER)
  19. 13 (IN WHICH PARTS OF A JOURNEY ARE -ODYSSEYS OF ABSOLUTE)
  20. 14 (IN WHICH A PRESENCE IS LARGELY -CONTINUOUS UNTIL IT’S NOT)
  21. 15 (IN WHICH A VOICE OF BELIEF IS LEFT TO ITS OWN DEVICES)
  22. 16 (IN WHICH MOMENTARY MOTION IS -EMBEDDED IN A BODY)
  23. PRIMARYPARTS (desire memory anatomy)
  24. PRELUDE: THE FORM OF A MOTION
  25. MY TONGUE FLIES AWAY
  26. IN OUR EVERY CELL / A TINY ALPHABET
  27. WITH MY EYES / SHUT
  28. HE SLIDES HIS HAND UP HER LEG
  29. FACES / GRINNING FROM THE DARK
  30. PARADISE CAUGHT IN THE EAR
  31. THE MIND IN THE ACT
  32. THE BIT OF SEEDCAKE OUT OF MY MOUTH
  33. HOW MY LOVER’S SKIN SMELT OF IT
  34. A BODY HAS / TO BE A BODY
  35. A SWEET HAND RIGHT NOW
  36. BRUSHED WITH HIS THUMB THE NUT OF HER NIPPLE
  37. IS THERE A WOMAN IN THIS TEXT
  38. MISSINGPARTS(decomposing Sappho)
  39. APHRODITE OF THE SPANGLED MIND
  40. IF EVER BEFORE / YOU CAUGHT MY VOICEFAR OFF
  41. FINE BIRDS BROUGHT YOU
  42. QUICK SPARROWS OVERTHE BLACK EARTH
  43. IF SHE DOES NOT LOVE, SOONSHE WILL LOVE
  44. TO TELL / TONGUE / TO TELL TALES
  45. WHOEVER HE IS WHO OPPOSITE YOU /SITS AND LISTENS
  46. CLOSE / TO YOUR SWEET SPEAKING
  47. NO SPEAKING / IS LEFT IN ME
  48. YOU BURN ME
  49. MY / MIND LIKE A MOUNTAINWIND FALLING
  50. TWO STATES OF MIND IN ME
  51. HAVING BEEN BREATHED OUT
  52. CLEARSOUNDING
  53. SWEETWORDED DESIRES
  54. SAPPHO, WHY
  55. YOU WOULD LET LOOSE YOUR LONGING
  56. SHE BITES HER TENDER MIND
  57. NEITHER FOR ME HONEY NOR THE HONEY BEE
  58. TRANSPARENT DRESS
  59. TO GUARD AGAINST A VAINLY BARKING TONGUE
  60. YOU WILL GO YOUR WAY AMONGDIM SHAPES
  61. MY THINKING / NOT THUS / IS ARRANGED
  62. NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS